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Monday, May 12, 2008

The Monday Evil Ads

...are below. Remember to click on the ad itself for an enlarged version.

It has been mentioned that daily ads could be a regular feature of the blog. I'm happy to have an additional feature, but I'm forced to consider that I reject a large percentage of cartoon captions, continuations and fake plots. This isn't too disturbing to the authors, as they seldom spend much time on them, but if I'm rejecting an ad you spent an hour creating, you might get pissed. I would expect a featured ad to look pretty much like a professional ad, to have some wit, and to not be too similar to one that's already appeared. Can artists handle rejection as well as writers?

But suppose we *do* spend an hour on continuations? How can you be so sure we don't?

I'm all up for a social experiment. Let's see how artists handle rejection. Then maybe they'll write some heart-felt openings and give you more business on the writing side. Then we can abuse them again.Two for one deal.The math says "do it."

I don't think I could handle participating in another feature. I'm barely keeping up with all the other stuff as it is.

This is off-topic, but does anyone know how to place a link so it's connected to a word that people can click on? Say I have the word "Powell's" in a sentence, and I want people to be able to click on the word "Powell's" to take them to the website. How do I connect the link so that it doesn't actually show up on the page? I don't know if this makes sense, which may be why I'm not having much luck with the google search on this topic.

If you're doing this on your blog, put the url in your message in compose mode. The switch to html mode. You'll see that there's some code that includes the url followed by what seems to be almost a repet of the url. That second one is what appears in the post, and you can change it to whatever you wish. When you switch back to compose you should have what you want.

In compose mode, it's adding the url underneath the box where the post gets edited (way down at the bottom of the page), but there's no repeat that follows when I switch back to HTML. The url just stays down at the bottom of the page, outside the editing box.

Hmm. There was never any second url, and even the first one didn't show up as a link.

There's probably just something weird going on in blogger, EE. At first I couldn't even type anything at all in compose mode. It was only when I closed out of blogger and went back in that I could type something.

But all's well that ends well. Turns out there's a nifty little link button that turns any text you highlight into a link when you press it.

Well, I like doing ads as much as the next guy (um, OK, maybe more so. Except newspaper ads. I used to supervise ad production for Radio Shack and Computer City back in the day when we used mechanicals with poster board and slicks and wax rather than via computer - YUCK!), but I don't have the proper tools to do really spiffy ads, so I'm about ad-ed out after these appear. I like the writing-related stuff better. So that's my vote (but whoever said this blog was a democracy, eh?).

Wait a second ... with all of these ads and everyone commenting on them and then going back to look at all the other comments, it's driving the hit rate up fast and skewing my carefully calculated guess as to when the site hits the million mark. Slow down, people! For the love of Amazon credit, slow down! We'll barely make it into June at this rate.